Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1938. / Vita. "This article was presented in part at the joint session of the agricultural history society with the American historical association at Philadelphia on Dec. 29, 1937. It is a summary of the author's doctoral dissertation with the same title at the University of Minnesota in 1938"--P. 224. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1959. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 212-223).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Catholic University of America, 1932. / Bibliography: p. 96-102.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andrezza Christina Ferreira Rodrigues.pdf: 16964881 bytes, checksum: ff278138157e15f045182af60ec4fe85 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-06-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study analyzes the major works of William Blake, showing his tendency to create a mythology of its own, based on Judeo-Christian mythology that ran through his visual and poetic work. In this sense, his work can be understood as mythological, inserted in the representations of English romanticism. It can see how these peculiarities inherent to its formation as a poet and illustrator as well as influential graphic arts indirectly and occultism of his age directly / Este trabalho faz uma análise das principais obras de William Blake, evidenciando sua tendência à constituir uma mitologia própria, baseada na mitologia judaico-cristã, que percorreu todo seu trabalho visual e poético. Nesse sentido, seu trabalho pode ser compreendido como mitológico, inserido nas representações do romantismo inglês. Pode-se perceber essas particularidades como inerentes a sua formação como poeta e ilustrador e também como influenciador indireto das artes gráficas e direto do ocultismo de sua época

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 251-257). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

The thesis examines the phenomenon of Romantic authorship as a conceptual tool of literary criticism. It compares the concept of Romantic authorship, in which the authorial personality plays a crucial role in determining the meaning of a literary work of art, and various positions of the author in relation to the meaning of their text in English Romantic literature itself. The introductory theoretical chapter develops the idea that the Romantic emphasis on the authorial subject and its primacy in interpretation of a work of art is, to a certain extent, a creation of late 19th - and 20th - century criticism. The thesis then examines the authorial position in Romantic thought and connects it with contemporary debates about language and the transfer of meaning between the subject and the outer world. The case study interprets selected poems by and the autobiography of Samuel T. Coleridge against the background of the debate on language and communication, presenting a number of authorial images in which centrality of the author's self for interpretation of a literary text is problematized.

This thesis proposes that astronomical ideas and forces structured the poetic, religious and philosophical imaginings of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Despite the widespread scholarly predilection for interdisciplinary enquiry in the field of literature and science, no study has been undertaken to assess the impact and imaginative value of mathematics and astronomy upon Wordsworth and Coleridge. Indeed, it is assumed they had neither the resources available to access this knowledge, nor the capacity to grasp it fully. This is not the case. I update the paradigm that limits their familiarity with the physical sciences to the education they received at school and at Cambridge, centred principally on Euclid and Newton, by revealing their attentiveness to the new world views promulgated by William Herschel, William Rowan Hamilton, Pierre-Simon Laplace, and the mathematicians of Trinity College, Cambridge, including John Herschel, George Peacock, and George Biddell Airy, amongst others. The language of astronomy wielded a vital, analogical power for Wordsworth and Coleridge; it conditioned the diurnal rhythms of their thought as its governing dynamic. Critical processes were activated, at the level of form and content, with a mixture of cosmic metaphors and nineteenth-century discoveries (such as infra-red). Central models of Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s literary and metaphysical inventions were indissociable from scientific counterparts upon which they mutually relied. These serve as touchstones for creative endeavour through which the mechanisms of their minds can be traced at work. Exploring the cosmological charge contained in the composition of their poems, and intricately patterned and pressed into their philosophical and spiritual creeds, stakes a return to the evidence of the Romantic imagination. The incorporation of astrophysical concepts into the moulds of Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s constructions manifests an intelligent plurality and generosity which reveals the scientific valency of their convictions about, variously, the circumvolutions of memory and the idea of psychic return; textual revision, specifically the ways in which language risks becoming outmoded; prosody, balance, and the minute strictures modifying metrical weight; volubility as an axis of conversation and cognition; polarity as the reconciling tool of the imagination; and the perichoretic doctrine of the Holy Trinity. The ultimate purpose is to show that astronomy provided Wordsworth and Coleridge with a scaffold for thinking, an intellectual orrery which ordered artistic consciousness and which they never abandoned.

L’œuvre de De Quincey s’inscrit à la croisée de trois concepts presque indéfinissables : autobiographie, romantisme, et une dimension trop souvent négligée, l’ironie. Qu’elle soit rhétorique, tragique ou « romantique », l’ironie exprime parfaitement les multiples contradictions du mangeur d’opium : outil rhétorique de confrontation et d’autodérision, individualiste et communautaire, sociable et provocatrice, l’ironie est à la fois l’instrument d’une rédemption et l’expression d’un profond malaise, une façon de se mettre en avant comme de s’effacer totalement. Entre Romantisme et Victorianisme, De Quincey interroge les limites de son identité et de son statut d’intellectuel, et reste réticent à exploiter le potentiel subversif de la parodie : l’ironie semble alors s’effacer derrière ses protestations nostalgiques et autocritiques. Pourtant elle sous-tend pour une bonne part la vitalité et la diversité de l’écriture des essais, dont elle manifeste une modernité largement sous-estimée, tant par les critiques que par De Quincey lui-même. L’ironie permet finalement d’esquisser une unité qui recentre les Confessions au cœur de la diversité de l’œuvre, plutôt qu’à la marge d’un ensemble hétéroclite au statut incertain. / Studying the works of De Quincey necessarily leads to three concepts almost impossible to define: autobiography, Romanticism, and all-too neglected irony. Whether rhetorical, tragic or “romantic”, irony expresses perfectly the many contradictions of the opium-eater. As the rhetorical tool of conflict and self-derision, claiming both individualistic and community values, sociable and provoking, irony is the way to redemption as much as the expression of deep unease, a way of pushing himself forward, or of withdrawing into the background. Caught between Romanticism and Victorianism, De Quincey questions the limits of his own identity and his status as an intellectual, and exploits reluctantly the potential subversion of parody, so that irony seems to yield to nostalgia and self-derogatory laments. And yet it can be said to underlie the vitality and diversity of the essays, whose modernity has been greatly underestimated by the critics and by De Quincey himself, as well. Finally, irony allows us to re-evaluate the Confessions as the centre of a unified, though diverse, set of writing, rather than as one of many, rather ill-assorted essays of unequal value.

In the “Introduction” (1–20) Johnston identifies three “simultaneous developments” which the book should bring together: for one, the “gentry […] emerging into a distinct and quite numerous stratum within the aristocracy”; secondly, the “[r]omance adapt[ing] to this change, opening up a new ideological space for this new class of readers”; and, finally, “book production” – in particular: copying by booklets and the increasing use of paper – “conveniently facilitating provincial copying and circulation of provincially oriented texts”. These three developments, says Johnston, “coalesced to yield a new type of romance” which he dubs gentry romance (14). His aim is to show that the gentry had an active part in the late history of English romance as some of its members – literally – appropriated (specimens of) this genre “most closely related with the aristocracy” (15).